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Dubawa, West Africa’s fact-checking body, draws high praises at Sierra Leone Launch
Officials and journalists speak of the importance of Dubawa and fact-checking to the Sierra Leone society.
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The government of Sierra Leone Tuesday in Freetown gave a full-throated support for expanded freedom of the media in the sub region, stressing that journalism is the oxygen of democracy, and that freedom of expression has been the cue for all positive revolutions in the world.
This view was advanced by the Minister of Information, Mohamed Swarray, while speaking
at the official launch of Dubawa, West Africa’s leading fact-checking organisation for stemming the spread of misinformation and disinformation and for the amplification of truth in public policy, public health and the media.